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Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt

            Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per se, but lately, I can certainly see what Saint John meant when he said “the whole world is in the power of the Evil One.” (1 John 5:19)...

Book Review: Babbitt

by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist.  Normally, a socialist's commentary on American culture from the 1920s wouldn't interest me, but this book is part of the literature curriculum of a Catholic homeschool I...

The Children’s Mass

            There were a lot of babies and children at Mass.  Their sounds filled the air.  There was crying, laughing, burbling, shouting, loud whispering and the pitter-patter of little feet running to the bathroom or escaping the pew and running from their...

Book Review: Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley             This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s "100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should Read" list.  In the beginning, it felt a bit melodramatic, particularly the male characters and especially Victor Frankenstein.  I kept thinking someone...
Mainstreaming Raw Dog

Mainstreaming Raw Dog

(Mom and Dad, if you read this, I forbid you from Googling that phrase! Trust me, you don't want to know.)...

Book Review: Utopia

Book Review: Utopia

by Thomas More             I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this book.  I’d read it was a satire and then the guy who wrote the introduction to the version I was reading insisted it wasn’t...

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Book Review: A Lion to Guard Us

Book Review: A Lion to Guard Us

by Clyde Robert Bulla             Amanda, about 10 I think, and her two younger siblings (8 and 6) were living in the house of their mother’s employer.  Their mother was very ill so Amanda was doing what she could as a kitchen girl to earn their keep.  Her father had...

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